Tim, I love the Epic Store. But my experience will be better if I knew Cyberpunk and Star Wars exclusive to the store, please!
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Replying to @MikeC277 @TimSweeneyEpic
Your personal experience will be better if a certain game was only playable on one launcher??? So others don't get to play it where ever they want? And the CEO liked this one LOL. That's so fucked up.
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Replying to @Wowsers21 @TimSweeneyEpic
The Epic Store seems to care more about the developers as they are giving a bigger cut on the games they made. So yes I'd feel better knowing they weren't getting screwed over by different storefronts.
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Actually, they care more about publishers. The actual developers don't get more money from the EGS.
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The publishers get an extra cut which in turn helps the developers produce more games
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Guillaume Jacquemin added,
Mortiel @MortielAdditionally, Tim misrepresents how the money flows with game sales. The publisher pays costs. The publisher makes the profit. If it's a 1st party dev or indie published, then there is no separation in pub and dev. If it's 3rd party, pub pays dev studio royalties based on sales.Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes -
The profit stores make on their 30% usually exceeds the profit the developers make on their own game. There’s the publisher cut (if not self-published), the store cut, development costs, marketing costs, operating costs.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @William_JCM and
Publishers don't take a "cut". They get all of the revenue and then give a portion to the developer in the form of royalties, if the dev is independent. I back my claims with evidence. Do you?https://davidmullich.com/2017/02/13/a-dirty-little-secret-of-the-game-industry-royalties/ …
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You could equally say stores don’t get a “cut”, but you don’t say that. You’re just playing with words to try to paint 4x-5x store markups as a wonderful well-deserved thing, while demonizing Epic, publishers, executives, the industry, whatever.
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